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Bentham

…reckoned among the pioneers of prison reform. It is true that the particular scheme that he worked out was bizarre and spoiled by the elaborate detail that he loved. “Morals reformed, health preserved, industry invigorated, instruction diffused” and other similar desiderata would, he thought, be the result if his scheme…

Willebrandt

…Prohibition violators, Willebrandt’s contributions to reforming the federal prison system were equally—or, arguably, more—significant. Willebrandt was largely responsible for establishing the first federal reformatory for young male first-time offenders; it opened in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1926. With increasing numbers of women being prosecuted and imprisoned for violating Prohibition laws, Willebrandt…